Cultural
Elding Oscarson creates “slightly bent” weathering steel extension to Lund’s Skissernas Museum
Tilted red tower marks entrance to Polish war museum by Kwadrat
Brutalist library in Chicago gets interior update by Woodhouse Tinucci
Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen drapes mesh curtains over Bahrain music centre
Sex shop converted into tiny Japanese art gallery by Persimmon Hills Architects
Six Canadian cultural buildings on 150th Canada Day
AL_A completes tile-covered entrance and subterranean gallery for London’s V&A museum
RIBA North architecture centre opens on Liverpool’s Mann Island
Sloping black volumes penetrate public square at Harbin’s Exhibition Hall of Crime Evidences
Pitched roofs and wooden slats characterise Audain Art Museum by Patkau Architects
Foster and Heatherwick complete Shanghai theatre with curtain-like facade
Swiss architecture students design and build wooden events pavilion beneath Zurich overpass
BIG creates subterranean museum by carving channels into dune by Nazi bunker
Studio Morison installs origami-like “pineapple” in Berrington Hall’s 18th-century garden
Royal Academy announces new “permanent home” for architecture as part of Chipperfield renovation
Tadao Ando to convert Paris stock exchange into art gallery
LA officials unanimously approve George Lucas museum in “slam dunk” decision
Stanton Williams completes renovation of beaux-arts museum in Nantes with stone and marble extension
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s US Olympic Museum breaks ground
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple was the “first expression” of modern architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright subverted typical art-gallery layouts with spiral Guggenheim museum
Steven Holl’s curvy-roofed addition to Houston arts museum breaks ground
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House is an early example of Mayan Revival architecture
